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Grand Avenue Masks
731 Words - 3 Pages.... their very souls. She is obsessed to the point of madness and this poison is best described by Jasmine when she comes upon Faye the morning of Faye’s decision to create order out of the chaos that has been her life.
“I realized talking about it was useless when I saw her eyes.
The fearful person I had seen behind her bright eyes the
past few weeks had come out now; she was that person.
She had told stories to save herself - now she was telling
them to excuse herself. Hatred. Jealousy. Anger. Evil.
All I had seen in my mother’s and my aunt’s eyes at
different times were here in Faye’s.” (p. 23-24)
After doing her b ....
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Enduring, Endearing Nonsense O
668 Words - 3 Pages.... was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's
photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success
as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale
to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls
was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and
who served as the model for the heroine.
Dodgson eventually sought to publish the first book on the advice of
friends who had read and loved the little handwritten manuscript he had
given to Alice Liddell. He expanded the story considerably and engaged the
services of John Tenniel, one of the best known arti ....
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Review Of 1984
845 Words - 4 Pages.... antique store
and rents a room to Julia and Winston as a trap for O'Brian.
Settings
Oceania - One of the three totalitarian superpowers that rule the world using censorship and pure
terror.
Mr. Charrington's rented room - Winston and Julia's secret hideaway where they come to make
love and hide from the telescreens and constant watch of the Party.
Ministry of Love - A rehabilitation center which uses torture and brainwashing technique in order to
completely conform its prisoners into the thinking and beliefs of the party only to be later killed, sent
to forced labor camps, or even released back into society.
Plot
In 1984, Winston Smith lives in ....
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Robert Browning
2201 Words - 9 Pages.... Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, near London, England on May 7, 1812. He was raised
by his father, also Robert Browning, and by his deeply religious mother, Sarah Anna Weideman-Browning.
His often indulgent parents gave him the freedom to explore new literary and philosophical ideas of the time
period, yet he was also instructed to believe the unexplained mysteries of the Christian faith(Miller, 1953).
His mother, who had strong ties to the congregational church, took great time to instruct Robert in his
religious studies. With this open atmosphere, however, Browning exhibited signs of disinterest in religion
during his early childhood. ....
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Perils Of Hope By Robert Frost
420 Words - 2 Pages.... does this to show the extremes in which hope can be found. The second and third stanzas reiterate the same thing as the first four lines but in a more vivid way using color images and images off a frosty morning that brings a chill to the readers spine.
"Peril of Hope," has a definite from. It is set up in a quatrain form with three stanzas. The poem has a rhyme scheme ABAB, with the last word of every other line rhyming, such as, lines one and three , there and bare, and also lines two and four, between and green. Lines one, two, and four in every stanza all have five syllables, and line three only has four. The poems lines have a stressed syllable followed by a unstres ....
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Robert Frost 3
927 Words - 4 Pages.... good job of it. But in order to understand his poetry, you need to know about the man.
Robert Lee Frost, born in San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. Although his verse forms are traditional--he often said, in a dig at archival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetr ....
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Hamlet 19
2305 Words - 9 Pages.... Claudius and then backing out several times. His actions throughout the play support this duplicitous nature. His dual persona is the foundation of Hamlet’s madness, and ultimately the play itself. There are many examples that illustrate how Hamlet’s fraudulent nature results in a tragedy because of his inability and reluctance to choose which role to play.
One such example occurs near the beginning of the tome. In Act One, Hamlet appears to be very straightforward in his actions, inner state, and role. When his mother questions him, Hamlet says, "Seems, madam? Nay it is. I know not seems" (Act I, Scene 2). By saying this, Hamlet lets Gertrude know that he is w ....
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King Lear
1116 Words - 5 Pages.... truth for himself.
is oblivious to the truth; therefore his better judgement is impaired. From the moment the Fool enter the play, he has an analogy to condemn of his foolish action:
Why? For taking one's part that's out of favor
Nay; an thou canst not smile as the wind sits, thoul't catch cold shortly
There, take may coxcomb! Why this fellow has banished two on's daughters,
And did the third a blessing against his will. If thou follow him,
Thou must needs wear my coxcomb- How now nuncle? Would I had two
Coxcombs and two daughters!
(I, i: 96-103)
When the Fool offers King Lear his coxcomb, he is offering him wisdom. King Lear is unaware of his ignoble a ....
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